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Though best known for its iconic electric guitars, Gibson also produced its own amplifiers from the mid 1930s until the late ’60s. A couple of years ago,company CEO Cesar Gueikian hinted at its return to tube amp manufacture, and now the first two comb… Continue reading Gibson returns to guitar amplification with vintage-inspired Falcon combos
If nothing else good came out of 2020, we can say that we at least have “Instrument of the People” — some 1967-era footage of Gibson Guitars’ “craftory”, which was …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Gibson Factory Tour, 1967-Style
Learning to play guitar is tough, and having small hands can make it even harder. Epiphone has launched the Power Players Collection to help young players take their important first steps to stardom using quality built 3/4-sized guitars.Continue Readin… Continue reading Epiphone Power Players Collection targets fretboard wizards of tomorrow
Gibson is delving into its storied past to build a new series of limited-edition guitars called the Archive Collection, and the first model has been crafted from a drawing penned in 1957 by the company’s former president, Theodore “Ted” McCarty.Continu… Continue reading Gibson waits 65 years to turn sketch idea into limited Theodore guitar
Iconic guitar brand Gibson has launched a new family of acoustic guitars for a new generation of up-and-coming pickers. Each guitar in the Generation Collection features a port in the upper side that started life as a 1964 concept blueprint, and has no… Continue reading New Gibson acoustics let players get a feel for what the audience hears
Music gear icon Gibson has teamed up with online instrument marketplace titan Reverb to sell one-of-a-kind prototypes, demo models, pre-played artist signatures and Gibson mods. The Gibson Demo Shop is live now and has kicked off with 40 exclusive guit… Continue reading Gibson sets up shop on Reverb to sell prototype and demo guitars
Many people who read Hackaday hold the title of “Webmaster” but [The Thought Emporium] is after slightly different credentials with the same title. He aims to modify a strain of yeast to produce spider silk. Charlotte’s Web didn’t go into great detail about the different types of silk that a spider can produce, but the video and screencap after the break give a rundown of how spiders make different types of silk, and that each species of spider makes a unique silk. For this experiment, the desired silk is “beta sheets” which the video explains are hard and strong.
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